The Flying Classroom
1954 · 1h 32m · N/A
Comedy, Drama, Family
Directed by
Kurt Hoffmann
Overview
The third form of a boarding school and the students of a neighboring school do not get along. Each side dreams up the craziest pranks to defeat the other. And when one day the high school students go as far as stealing the Gymnasium students’ essays and even burning them, daily school life really gets out of hand.
Director and cast
- Kurt Hoffmann Director
- Paul Dahlke as Justus
- Heliane Bei as Schwester Beate
- Paul Klinger as Der Nichtraucher
- Peter Vogel as Der schöne Theodor
- Peter Tost as Martin
- Bert Brandt as Matz
- Knut Mahlke as Uli
- Herbert Kroll as Dir.Grünkern
- Erich Ponto as Sanitätsrat Dr. Hartwig
- Bruno Hübner as Prof. Kreuzkamm
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